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Charming accents all year 'round, these luminescent crystal bunnies from Hadeland of Norway come packed in a native box with an illustrated hand- blocked legend. 3Y2" tall $10 postpaid. pitt petri 378 DELAWARE AVE./SUFFALO N.Y. O'BRIENS FARM SAUSAGE (Leaner) Fresh Frozen. Mailed Special Delivery Parce] Post and packed in Dry ice. (Within 800 Miles) 2-1-1b tubs. $5.00 O'Briens Farm Store, c 10 O'Briens Inn P O. Box 21, Waverly, N. Y. 14892 BOOKS ß(\IEFL Y NOTED ..F 4 i ---- - 0 -. _ - - - _0 : I ri- - - - -..- - --- FICTION <<, THE LYNCHING OF ()RIN NEWFIELD, by Gerald J av Goldberg (Dial). This remarkablé novel, set in a tIn) Vermont farming communIt) cal1ed Farnum, is centered on an iron man named Orin Newfield, who proves himself not only willing but able to blow up his world to satisfy his de- sire for revenge. Orin- six feet four, and possessed of astonishing strength and of an even more dstonish- ing capacity for hard work -has made himself into one of the richest farmers in the area with the help of his miser- able wife, Alma, a childless woman whose good looks and good cheer ha ve been quite obliterated in the course of thirty-two yedrs of mar- riage to a trapped superman. Orin is much too big for Farnum, but old tics, mainl) grudges, hold him to his land, and in limiting himself he has deformed himself. The tension and clarity of Mr. Goldberg's writing leave us no choice but to follow hi raging anti-hero's story from the comparatively mild heginning to tht: th undering finish. It is impossible to like Orin, but to ignore him is un- thinkab]e. NOTE: Viking has published "The In- nocent and the Guilty," a collection of short stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner. All but two of them origi- nally appeared in T hr New Y ork- er. . . . "Secrets," a nove] by Nancy Hale, has been published hy Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Again, much of the hook first appeared as short stories in this magazine. GENER.AL BORN TO REBEL: AN AUTOBIOGRA- PHY, by Benjamin E. Mays (Scrib- ners). The author, recently retired as President of Morehouse College, has become PresIdent of the Atlanta Board of Education. His memories hegin in l898, when, as the child of a tenant farmer in South Caro- lina, he, with his famIly, hid in terror from one of the lynch mobs that from time to time killed a Negro in order (to paraphrase Voltaire) to dIscourage the others. Mr. Mays' ac- count of the lot of Negroes during his youth-and during most of hi adult life, too-is a factual recital and a terrible indictment. He strug- gled to make something of himself because he wanted to find out If he really w dS natively inferior to whites. An A.B. from Bates and a Ph.D. from Chicago confirmed his suspicion that his race was as gifted as any other. Then he devoted hi life as an educator to instilling confi- dence as well as learning in hlack youth; his most famous student was doubtless the late Martin Luther King, ] r., but he can call a ro11 of impressive graduates. Mays was thirt} before he met a Southern white man he neither feared nor dis- trusted-a fact that makes his charity as stunning an achievement as any of his academic ones. Ten dollars. THE RED AND THE WHITE: REPORT FROM A FRENCH VILLAGE, by Ed- gar Morin, translated by A M. Sheridan-Smith (Pantheon '). A team of French sociologIsts, headed by M. Morin, has studied the moderniza- tion of a Breton comn1unity and come up with a description that would fit 111any a New England vil- lage in the nineteen-twenties. The native of Plodémet insist that theirs is an exceptionally friendly commu- nity, and then instantly speak of per- vasive Jealousy and envy; they bene- fit from steadily increasing summer tourism, and have trouble remem- bering not to fleece the tourists. Small, mixed farms are disappearing, to nobody's regret-the old people, especially, remember how hard life used to be. T oday's young people have many more opportunIties than ever before, mainly through im- proved education, but to grasp these opportunities they often have to leave Plodemet. The ones who stay escape parental control and go who knows where to do who knowc: what in their automobiles; in 1965 some young women were even seen smok- ing in puh1ic. In short, the mOré fa change, the more fa change e\ erv- where in the saIne way. Plodémet may have a very different past from any Vermont township, but its future looks a lot the same. LETTERS FROM LISELOTTE: ELISA- BETH CHARLOTTE, PRINCESS P ALA- TINF AND DU'CHESS OF ORLÉANS, translated and edited hy Maria Kroll (McCall). The author of these mostly seventeenth-century letters was the sister-in-law of Louis XIV. They have long been a source of facts about the King, but Mrs. Kroll